Citation

Zacks JM. Projections (N Y) 2015; 9(1).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015)

DOI

10.3167/proj.2015.090102

PMID

34721752

PMCID

PMC8553010

Abstract

This article is a précis of the book Flicker: Your Brain on Movies (Zacks 2014). Flicker aims to introduce a broad readership to the psychology and neuroscience that underlies their experience in the movie theatre. The book's topics include including: emotional experience, adaptation from texts to films, memory and propaganda, movie violence, film editing, and brain stimulation. Cutting across the specific topics are a few broad themes: the evolution of the brain and mind, the role of automatically evoked responses in film viewing, and the role of behavioral and neural plasticity in everyday experience.

Language: en

Keywords

violence; memory; psychology; neuroscience; editing; emotion; evolution; vision